I mean due to election.
Those TX seats are being treated as GOP seats. What's your point?
I mean the seats the GOP "gained" in Texas. They cannot and should not be treated as Democratic seats if you are being intellectually honest when comparing election results.
I've not worked out notional results for 2000 on 2002 lines yet, BTW
I think he is saying the GOP gains there were not really gains in as much as the electorate was just as Republican in 2002 as in 2004 (like if you add up the raw total of votes in all the Texas CDs). The districts were simply drawn to pool Republican votes into a smaller number of districts (Gerrymandered). Now with the redistricting that was in force for this year, there is a more representative allocation of congressional seats by party. As evidence, compare the 19R to 12D Texas State Senate with the 21R to 11D House of Representatives line-up. So, the GOP gain was really there before this election, it just wasn't allocated accurately.
